19 Related Articles, between 2018-12-11 and 2018-12-12

Bitter truth behind hipster heaven: Iconic laneway cafes under investigation for underpaying staff. Popular cafe strips on Degraves St and Hardware Lane in Melbourne's CBD are under investigation by the watchdog after accusations of gross mismanagement of funds. >>

Boy dies during a boating accident – making him the 8th drowning victim in first 9 days of summer. A young boy has drowned after falling off a boat at Bonnie Doon about two hours north east of Melbourne. Eight people have drowned in the first nine days of Australia summer. >>

Brain scans reveal how we overcome indecision and can 'learn' to like good choices. Scientists at the University of Melbourne observed people faced with hard decisions using fMRIs and eye trackers and learned that 'practicing' a choice actually makes us prefer the thing we choose. >>

Dog leaps out of car window at Eastlink Tunnel in Melbourne and survives. The dog leaped from an open window of a car travelling 80km/hr in Melbourne's busy Eastlink Tunnel on Sunday. >>

Fundraiser organised for three boys who lost their mum and brother to driver 'high on ice'. Amanda Gwynne, 37, and her son Harrison, 12, were killed when their car collided with Ryan Kenny's truck on the Murray Valley Highway in Brimin, 300km north of Melbourne , on November 2. >>

House price plunge accelerating biggest fall in Melbourne how does your area compare . The house pricing plunge is still accelerating and new figures have revealed the cities with the biggest drops. The average price of a home in Australia now sits at $675,000. >>

Ice addict who stabbed father over argument about spilt milk pleads for a reduced jail sentence. Melbourne schizophrenic ice addict Jesse Phan, 44, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Rodney Ballis, 43, who was stabbed to death. >>

Lawyer snitch who brought on a royal commission anxiously awaits release of her ex-jailbird lover. The lawyer at the centre of the Informer 3838 scandal is anxiously awaiting the release of the criminal father of her first born in Melbourne. >>

Man's body is pulled from the Yarra River in the heart of Melbourne's CBD. Emergency services were called to the scene, near Southgate Avenue, just after 9am. The man has not been formally identified, and police are still investigating how he died. >>

Melbourne is brought to a standstill as electrical fault shuts down tram network. Melbourne has been brought to a standstill as an electrical fault has shut down the city's tram network. >>

Melbourne road rage: Women throw bricks at driver during furious ‘attack' on Monash Freeway . The victims, all aged in their 20s, had been travelling on Melbourne's Monash Freeway last month when a Toyota Echo drove beside them. Shocking footage has now been released. >>

Mother refused service at Big W after employees claim her autistic son ‘was being rude’. A mother has expressed her shock and anger at being refused service at Big W Sunbury in Melbourne's north-western outskirts after her autistic son became restless and overwhelmed. >>

Savvy midwife, 23, rakes in $15k per year by selling placenta products. A midwife from Melbourne has been collecting fresh placentas from new mothers, transforming them into capsules, essences, face creams, creative keepsakes and even raw smoothies. >>

The foods a beauty expert refuses to eat after losing 30 kilograms . Bernadette Fisers from Melbourne shed a 30kg in just 30 weeks. Her self-devised diet not only helped her lose weight but her skin now glows. Here, she shares the foods she refuses to eat. >>

The longest train station escalators south of the equator - and people keep falling down them. Metro Trains bosses have started a safety campaign to inform Parliament Station users in Melbourne how to use its escalator facilities properly after a report found three were falling on them each week. >>

Thug who blinded man sparked his MAN BUN loses appeal after growing the same hairstyle himself. Melbourne reveller Brent Moresco, 20, who blinded a man during a night out because of his man ban has lost his appeal against his sentence and was seen sporting the same hairstyle. >>

Up to 20 thugs run riot after storming a home in an apparent revenge attack. The thugs smashed their way into the house on Monahans Road in Cranbourne West, Melbourne's south-east, just after 9.30pm on Friday using car batteries, before tasering the man. >>

Video: Midwife sells face creams made with her clients' placentas. 23-year-old midwife and Placenta Remedies Specialist Ciara Noble, from Melbourne, Australia, earns an extra $15,000 each year by selling smoothies and face creams made with her clients' placentas. >>

Video: Tradie thrown from his van during violent carjacking in Melborune. Tradie is thrown from his van during violent carjacking and knocked unconscious – as accused car thief brings Melbourne to a standstill during wild police chase. >>